Phineas JONES

(1819-1884)

JONES, Phineas, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Spencer, Worcester County,
Mass., April 18, 1819; attended the common schools; moved to
Elizabeth (then called Elizabethtown), N.J., in 1855; member of the
city council of Elizabeth 1856-1860; moved to Newark in 1860;
engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits; vice president of
the New Jersey State Agricultural Society; member of the State
house of assembly in 1873 and 1874; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); declined to
be a candidate for renomination in 1882; retired from active life
and died in Newark, N.J., April 19, 1884; interment in Evergreen
Cemetery, Elizabeth, N.J.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present